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Images from the collections

Images about Printed ephemera

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  • A man bending down in the street to pick up a scrap of a discarded poster that is being blown around by the wind. Lithograph by T. Dighton.

Works from the collections

41 works

    • Ephemera

    Wellcome Collection : you are invited to join the Ephemera Society tour of the exhibitions Medicine Man & War and Medicine on Tuesday 20 January 2009 at 2pm : Stephen Lowther, Head of Ephemera collection, will give an introductory talk on the material held in the library collection.

    | Date: 2008
    • Books

    Reinventing the wheel / Jessica Helfand.

    Helfand, Jessica. | Date: [2002], ©2002
    • Books

    The John Johnson collection : catalogue of an exhibition.

    Bodleian Library. | Date: 1971
    • Books

    The Ephemera Society handbook 2014.

    Ephemera Society (Great Britain) | Date: 2014
    • Books

    Pentothol postcards / by David Lai MD.

    Lai, David, MD. | Date: [2005], ©2005
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